Siân Berry MP: written questions
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Gaza: PalestiniansForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the US President's proposals on the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza.
Answer: The Foreign Secretary had a call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 27 January, prior to President Trump's comments on Gaza. The readout is available on gov.uk. We continue to engage closely with the US Administration across the spectrum of issues rel...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFuels: AviationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies on renewable electricity generation of the Royal Society's report entitled Net zero aviation fuels: r
Answer: The report in question considers four potential net zero aviation fuels: hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuels (efuels) and biofuels. Recommendations include the need for further Research and Development of the efficient production, storage and use of green ...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: BiofuelsDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of agricultural land required for bio-aviation fuels to meet (a) existing and (b) potential demand to allow for expansion of (i) Heathrow airport and (ii) oth
Answer: The Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) mandate scheme is driving the uptake of lower carbon fuels used in aviation. The scheme does not support the supply of biofuels made from food, feed or energy crops. SAF must be made from sustainable wastes or residues ...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: ProductionDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's policies on food production of the report by the Royal Society entitled Net zero aviation fuels: resource requirements and envir
Answer: The report in question concluded that a significant proportion of the UK’s land would be required for fuel production if crops were used to decarbonise aviation. The UK’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate, which is designed to increase the amount o...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: StaffDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many staff in his Department are working primarily on (a) fossil fuels, (b) renewables excluding biomass, (c) biomass, (d) carbon capture and storage, (e) nuclear energy, (f) energy netwo
Answer: The Department has around 4600 full time equivalents (FTE) working across multiple policy areas and programmes. These include renewables, biomass, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, energy networks, oil and gas, energy storage and energy efficiency, amo...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordClyde Naval Base and RNAD Coulport: PlanningMinistry of DefenceTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27939More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2024 to Question 17711 on Clyde Naval Base and RNAD Coulport, if he will publish the (a) name, (b) purpose, (c) expected in-service date and (d) forecast cost of planned infr
Answer: There are a number of infrastructure projects at different levels of maturity that do not fall within the Clyde Infrastructure Programme at HMNB Clyde, however as they consist of nuclear and non-nuclear supporting infrastructure to support submarine opera...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionDepartment for TransportTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential cost of building one new runway at Heathrow Airport.
Answer: The Government is clear that any expansion scheme will be financed in its entirety by the private sector. The exact cost of the runway will be determined by the parameters of any scheme brought forward by scheme promoters.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHeathrow Airport: ConstructionTreasuryTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27082More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential economic (a) costs and (b) benefits of an expansion of Heathrow Airport.
Answer: According to the most recent study from Frontier Economics, a third runway could increase potential GDP by 0.43% in by 2050 and could create over 100,000 jobs. Over half – 60% - of that GDP boost would go to areas outside London and South-East. The exact ...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to involve communities and stakeholders in the development of a new Clean Air Strategy; and what his planned timetable is for completing the strategy.
Answer: The Government is committed to meeting current legal targets for air quality, including the targets recently set under the Environment Act 2021, and will review the policy measures needed to achieve them. The Government launched a rapid review of the Envi...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnvironment ProtectionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled, Government launches rapid review to meet Environment Act targets, published on 30 July 2024, whether the rapid review of the
Answer: The Government has concluded the review of Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) which is informing the development of a revised EIP. The Government will publish a statement of rapid review key findings in early 2025, to be followed by publication of a rev...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Pollution: MonitoringDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he will publish the (a) interim and (b) final report from the Air Quality Information System Review.
Answer: The Air Quality Information System Review has now concluded. The final report and accompanying reports will be published shortly.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAir PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7788 on Air Pollution, if his Department will take steps to amend clean air targets to bring the UK in line with the European Unio
Answer: The Government is committed to cleaning up our air and protecting the public from the harm of pollution. We recognise the importance of ambitious yet achievable air quality targets, supported by robust delivery plans, which is why the Government has launc...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Independent report by the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee entitled DPTAC position on the eligibility criteria for concessionary bus travel, published on 17 August 2022, wheth
Answer: The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age, currently sixty-six. The ENCTS costs around £700 million annually and, while the Department keep...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPress: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2024 to Question 14270 on Press: Regulation, what work her Department is undertaking on this issue; which other Departments have participated; and if she wil
Answer: DCMS works with a range of other Departments, including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the Home Office, to support a free, plural, and financia...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAlaa Abd El-FattahForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Answer: We are committed to securing Mr El-Fattah’s release so he can be reunited with his family and we continue to raise his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian government. The Prime Minister wrote to President Sisi on 26 December 2024 and 8 January 2025...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordClyde Naval Base and RNAD CoulportMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the operating costs were for (a) HMNB Clyde and (b) RNAD Coulport for the most recent financial year.
Answer: I am unable to release this information due to operational sensitivities.
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordClyde Naval BaseMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) name, (b) purpose, (c) expected in-service date and (d) forecasted cost to the public purse is for all infrastructure projects within the Clyde Infrastructure programme.
Answer: As part of the Government's Major Project Portfolio, details on the Clyde Infrastructure programme are routinely released as part of this Government's annual transparency return to Parliament.
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordClyde Naval Base and RNAD Coulport: PlanningMinistry of DefenceTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are any planned infrastructure projects at (a) HMNB Clyde and (b) RNAD Coulport that do not fall within the Clyde Infrastructure Programme.
Answer: Several infrastructure projects at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde do not fall within the Clyde Infrastructure Programme, for instance routine base maintenance and Programme EUSTON, the delivery of resilient out of water engineering capability.
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLand: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the report by the New Economics Foundation entitled Building Hope: how land reforms
Answer: The government have made clear its intention to reform the compulsory purchase order process and land compensation rules to enable more effective land assembly that will speed-up and lower the costs of the delivery of housing and critical infrastructure i...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism and Drugs: RehabilitationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he will provide for drug and alcohol treatment through (a) the Public Health grant and (b) other funding steams beyond March 2025; and if he will continue funding for the Supplementary
Answer: The Government supports investment in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services to ensure that those people with a substance use need get the appropriate help and support. In addition to the Public Health Grant, the Department has allocated local a...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCold Weather PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households (a) are eligible and (b) have received Cold Weather Payments in 2024, broken down by week.
Answer: (a) Table 1 shows the number of estimated eligible qualifiers across 2024. Table 1: Number of Estimated Eligible Recipients in England and Wales Season (1st November-31st March)Estimated Eligible Recipients (England and Wales)2023/243,921,0002024/254,116...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMusic VenuesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help support grassroots music venues.
Answer: The Government response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee's report on grassroots music venues outlines our commitment to working across the live music sector to support grassroots music.We urge the live music industry to introduce a voluntary tick...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Hire ServicesDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data she holds on the (a) age, (b) gender, (c) disability status and (d) other demographic make-up of users of micromobility services.
Answer: The term micromobility can be defined in different ways. For the purposes of this question, we have taken it to refer to rental e-scooters and cycles.DfT's Transport and Transport Technology Tracker survey is designed to be representative of the wider pop...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPress: PrivacyDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish a response to the recommendations of the report by the Press Recognition Panel entitled Press Intrusion and Regulation, published on 28 August 2024.
Answer: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport does not have policy responsibility for the Press Recognition Panel in order to ensure that there is no Government interference in its independent work.
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the oral contribution of 4 September 2024 by the Prime Minister, Official Report, column 326, if she will take steps to require housing associations to publish
Answer: The Building Safety Act 2022 and associated regulations set out requirements for information that must be provided to residents in Higher-Risk Buildings - buildings which contain at least two residential units and are at least 18 metres in height, or have...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
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